John Trumbull Quotes

But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.

John Trumbull

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• I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Work
  • Cowboy
  • Hat

• What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Hope
  • Know
  • Ought

• I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Enemy
  • Negro
  • Laboring Class

• I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Write

• On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Present
  • Flag
  • Indian

• At one point, we were across the street from the Sharon Tate house; at another, we lived in Elvis's old Bel Air bachelor pad. It was where he first met the Beatles.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • House
  • Air
  • Old

• The capital goes wherever the opportunities are.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Opportunities
  • Wherever

• And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Government
  • Security
  • How

• A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.

  

  Carly Craig
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• Each morning, you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Different
  • Fashion
  • Morning

• It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Up
  • Woman
  • Young

• Everything I've experienced, things that my friends have experienced and we talk about, things that are on the news - all aspects of life are in my message.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Life
  • Friends
  • News

• For me, the making of exhibitions has always had to do with dialogue: a concentrated, in-depth, focused dialogue with artists, who keep teaching me that exhibitions should always invent new rules for the game.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Game
  • Rules
  • Artists

• Since the founding of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other mainstays of what technology writers have come to call 'the social Web' or 'Web 2.0,' a sizable portion of humanity has learned to be together while apart, sacrificing intimacy for control and spontaneity for predictability.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Together
  • Control
  • Technology

• In working with top leaders and thought philosophers of our time, I will tell you that among their secrets of success is a regular practice of acknowledging and appreciating what they have. It can offer an oracle into the future because it not only tells you where you are, but it also helps clarify where you want to go in life.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Life
  • Time
  • Future

• That ear - I mean, Jesus, he's got to will that to the Smithsonian.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Jesus

• In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • Life
  • Great
  • Earth

• It was thy kiss, Love, that made me immortal.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Kiss

• I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.

  

  Frank Black
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• If you had no new technology, and you powered society as we do today - mostly by fossil fuels - you'd have only two choices: Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Today
  • Society

• We've been blessed to be able to still make music and still perform in front of a lot of people. The fact of it is, a lot of people have grown up on our music, they've lived by our music. Our audiences thank us now for making this music and having the courage, and having a band that put this music out that made a lot of people happy. Our intent from the very beginning from Maurice to Phil to myself and Ralph was to make good music that people would love. We're proud of that.

  

  Verdine White Earth, Wind & Fire
  • Blessed
  • Music
  • People

• The Tea Party movement as I perceive it is all about recognizing the difference between state and federal powers. And that there are limits to federal power that need to be respected.

  

  Mike Lee
  • Party
  • Differences
  • Movement

• But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.

  

  John Trumbull